Principal Test Engineer

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Caldicot, Gwent, Wales
In-Office
Senior level
Hardware • Semiconductor
The Role
The Principal Test Engineer formulates test strategies, interprets customer requirements, and develops systems for electronics packaging, ensuring product verification and validation. Provides project management and supports continual improvement.
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Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 17,000-member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us? Looking for an atmosphere of trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, and communication? How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multi-billion dollar (with a B!) global organization? We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology Inc.

People come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. They stay because our culture supports their growth and stability. They are challenged and driven by an incredible array of products and solutions with unlimited career potential. Microchip’s nationally-recognized Leadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually. We take pride in our commitment to employee development, values-based decision making, and strong sense of community, driven by our Vision, Mission, and 11 Guiding Values; we affectionately refer to it as the Aggregate System and it’s won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.

Our company is built by dedicated team players who love to challenge the status quo; we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. People like you.

Visit our careers page to see what exciting opportunities and company perks await!

Job Description:

Microchip’s Advanced Packaging team delivers a competitive advantage for its customers by miniaturizing electronic components to create smaller, smarter and more reliable circuit solutions.

As Principal Test Engineer you will support design, development and manufacturing of the companies next generation electronic modules. 

This position will allow you to become an integral part of a team of specialists in materials, mechanical, electronics and packaging engineers that strive to push the boundaries of conventional microelectronics packaging.  We are looking for an individual with a passion for exploration and breaking down barriers.  If you are a lateral thinker who thrives on challenging the norm, we welcome the opportunity to speak to you.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Formulating test strategies that meet the objective of lean product verification
  • Interpreting customer requirements to produce clear specifications
  • Developing bespoke ‘rack & stack’ systems, including hardware and software
  • Facilitating team-orientated risk management (FMEA and compliance review)
  • Planning and implementing product verification and validation activities
  • Analysing and interpreting test data versus application requirements
  • Articulating product performance to a multi-disciplinary group
  • Measurement System Analysis
  • Identifying and implementing continual improvement projects
  • Disciplined problem solving
  • Support in-house training programmes as required.
  • Travel internationally on occasion as requested.

Requirements/Qualifications:

  • Degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or related discipline
  • 7+ years’ experience of working in a concurrent engineering environment
  • Proven project management abilities (scheduling, contingency planning, budget tracking, expediting)
  • Microcontroller experience desirable (particularly PIC16 and PIC32)
  • Embedded C microcontroller protocols UART, SPI, I2C etc.
  • Experience developing test routines using Labview and Teststand desirable
  • Use of National Instruments racking systems desirable
  • Experience of Visual C# application development desirable
  • Circuit design and PCB layout design using software such as Altium
  • Structured and disciplined approach
  • Articulate – able to convey technical options/arguments in a concise way
  • Comfortable leading and facilitating team technical activities
  • Focused on business results and process improvement
  • Flexible – able and willing to contribute to all aspects of the team’s work

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

To all recruitment agencies: Microchip Technology Inc. does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our recruiting team or other Microchip employees. Microchip is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Top Skills

Electronic Engineering
Hardware
Project Management
Software
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The Company
HQ: Chandler, AZ
13,393 Employees
Year Founded: 1989

What We Do

Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading semiconductor supplier of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. Its easy-to-use development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal designs which reduce risk while lowering total system cost and time to market.

The company’s solutions serve more than 125,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets.

Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.

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